[Tuberculosis morbidity in the areas under strict radiation control].
The levels of tuberculosis morbidity in the areas of a strict radiation control imposed as a consequence of the accident at the Chernobyl atomic power station are determined by the following two factors: outflow of young people (including children) whose tuberculosis morbidity is rather low; and lesser coverage of the population by preventive fluorographic examinations. In the majority of the areas of a strict radiation control, lesser coverage of the population by preventive fluorographic examinations has a predominant influence on the tuberculosis morbidity rates which appear to be lower than in 1985. At the same time the percentage of the destructive forms in newly diagnosed patients with respiratory tuberculosis happens to increase, while the proportion of those developing focal pulmonary tuberculosis appears to decrease. Tuberculosis case-finding is the urgent problem which should be achieved by means of non-radiation methods of detecting this disease.
Dvoĭrin
M S
MS
Liabakh
P P
PP
Kharchenko
L A
LA
Androsova
N P
NP
D000059:Accidents; D006801:Humans; D009688:Nuclear Reactors; D011847:Radioactive Fallout; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014455:Ukraine / Q000453:epidemiology
D011847:Radioactive Fallout
Zabolevaemost' tuberkulezom v raĭonakh zhestkogo radiatsionnogo kontrolia.